Companies are using subscription models because it has proven to be far more profitable than a one-time purchase. Why sell the product to each person just once when you can sell it to them over and over again? You no longer have to constantly develop new products and versions, and you now only have to maintain your existing product.

And it works because people buy it.

I don’t really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

Anyone got a non-paywalled link?

Did we read the same article? This mentions nothing about infighting between groups.

Oh, is this what they meant by “commenting your code”?

Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

I would argue that in this case the maintainers are in the wrong for not even responding to the issue, not the reporter responding with memes.

I’ve seen this same thing happen with Python’s type hints. Turns out giving an “escape hatch” type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

What the hell are you talking about

I usually agree with his takes, but I can’t watch more than a minute and a half of a video of his, because it’s always an unscripted rant. It’s fine though, he usually gets his point across in the first minute anyway, and then repeats himself for another ten minutes.

I think you’re spot on. It fits right in to the whole “enshittification” topic that Doctorow wrote about. Everyone started using streaming services like Netflix because it offered such a great user experience; now that they have the user base, unfortunately we are now at the point where Netflix has every motivation to make the platform as shitty as possible to milk as much money from their users as they can.

Wow, I’m really disappointed, it’s just full of posts from parody accounts with people in the comments not realizing it isn’t real.

Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

Hard to say without being able to see the comments. I suspect that if that were the case, the entire post would have been removed.

Cheaper? Yes, I guess so, depending on how you measure cost. More useful? Absolutely disagree.

Most sites load no content at all if JS is disabled.

I don’t think that necessarily holds true for OSS. The average user with no development experience wanting to use an open source project doesn’t mean it will always develop faster.

Don’t worry, I misread it the exact same way

Yeah, I don’t see an option for it on Liftoff

It’s explicitly illegal in California? I’ve never heard that before.